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    The Saga of a Chanting Phoenix
    The Saga of a Chanting Phoenix
    The Saga of a Chanting Phoenix
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    The Saga of a Chanting Phoenix

    By Alice Chudes

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    Alice Chudes comes from a family steeped in literature, her grandfather having been
    a literary critic and a writer, and her great-grandfather having been a famous poet. She started writing poetry in Russian in the 1980s and has been writing ever since. This book is a collection of the past twenty-five years of her poetry in English and French, with her own literary translations into English.



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    “Alice Chudes’ verses are romantic, sensual, passionate, romanticised, and positive.
    Many readers will find her poetry easy to relate to. With her collection of poems, Alice
    Chudes, like the Phoenix, ensures we will hear what she has to say.”
    — Vladimir Guevarra, Writer
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing Singapore
    Release dateSep 13, 2020
    ISBN9781543758979
    The Saga of a Chanting Phoenix
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    Alice Chudes

    Alice started writing poetry in 1980s and has been writing poetry ever since. This book is a collection of the past 25 years of her poetry in English and French. She also comes from a family in literature with her grandfather being a literary critic and a writer. Alice Chudes is a dreamer. She lives to love and loves to live. She likes to explore the invisible and discover the hidden truth behind the mask. Alice prefers to take the roads less travelled, which sometimes exist solely in her imagination. She believes that one needs to disconnect from reality in order to reconnect with it in unexpected ways. Alice believes in the Divine. It is this faith that makes miracles come true for her. No matter how lost she has been, she has managed to rebound from all the setbacks in her life like the Phoenix who rose from the ashes. So, Alice hopes that her saga will help others to find the right way. It is not the way to happiness as an end goal but it is the odyssey that makes one happy. Alice dreams that more people are able to finally open their eyes and see, see and create a better future for all.

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      The Saga of a Chanting Phoenix - Alice Chudes

      Copyright © 2020 by Alice Chudes.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      For more information about the book, please visit www.alicechudes.com and www.store-alicechudes.com.

      Illustrated by Ellie Lasthiotaki, www.ellielasthiotaki.com.

      With a foreword by Vladimir Guevarra.

      www.partridgepublishing.com/singapore

      Dedicated to my grandfather Alexander

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements

      It Is Hard Dealing with a Poet by Vladimir Guevarra

      Foreword by Vladimir Guevarra: Reading Alice Chudes’ Romantic Relatable Verses

      Preface My Poetry Interpretation

      DEFINING TIMELESSNESS

      Wisdom Is an All-Encompassing Heavenly Ode

      Truth Is What You Hear When You Stand Still

      Time Is Spiral Like DNA

      Soul Is an Intangible Quintessence of Life

      Knowledge Germinates the Enlightenment Seed

      Light in a Kaleidoscope Heals in Time of Self-Doubt

      Love Grows the Wings to Touch Infinity

      Life Is a Rose with Thorns

      Happiness Is to Be in Tune with the World

      Dreams Are Answers from the Subconscious

      Destiny Is Carving Out My Path in Poetry

      Abundance Is Being Wealthy with What Is Within One’s Grasp

      PHOENIX’S SAGA IN CHANTED POETRY

      2015–2020 Resurrecting Through the Tears of Love

      I Saw You in One Wicked and Forbidden Dream

      Metamorphosis: Painting the Mandala of My Past to Release My New Future

      Truth Is, You Never Left Me

      A Fortune Stroke of Serendipity

      Ink’s Power to Heal

      My Unicorn at the Genesis of the New World

      The Eye of the Perfect Storm

      Revelations in Turbulent Times

      Catching My Muse, My Firebird

      A Blessing in Disguise

      Sacrificial Lambs

      A Seed of Knowledge

      A Leap of Faith

      My Anointed Future

      A Cry of My Soul

      #MeToo

      It Is Time to Act

      The World on Fire

      Six Senses in Jerusalem

      Thanksgiving to God

      A Glimpse at Apocalypse

      A Message in a Bottle

      Lost Without Hope

      My Outside-the-Box Mantra

      Truth Always Leaks Out

      A Sight of the Parallel World

      A Hymn for My Subconscious Mind

      I Wish I Were Not Alone

      A Million Shattered Pieces

      Walking in Your Footsteps

      The Secret Love Potion

      I Wander. I Wonder. I Speak to the Stars

      A Weeping Soul in the River of Life

      An Illusion of Separation

      Two Acquainted Strangers

      A Medium in Love

      A Night Silver Lining

      Subject to Interpretation

      You Are My Cup of Tea!

      Oh, Baby, Hear My Questions!

      Reunion: It Is Not Too Late!

      An Unanswered Invitation

      Adieu to He Who Does Not Exist

      One Dreadful Step Ahead

      If I Were Your Queen!

      Creator’s Calling

      Love Is Way More Durable Than Hatred

      2005–2015 The Lost Decade

      1995–2005 Discovering Love, the Essence of Life

      Deux Colombes, l’Âme de l’Océan

      Dove’s Happiness Scent

      Mon Cœur Rayonne

      A Beam from My Heart

      La Fève de la Galette des Rois

      Twelfth Night Cake’s Charm

      Tu Es Mon Étoile Filante

      You Are My Shooting Star

      L’Aspiration d’une Petite Fille

      The Yearning of a Little Girl

      A Thought of Gratitude

      La Soif de Liberté

      Thirst for Freedom

      Une Heureuse Pensée à Propos de la Vie

      A Happy Thought About Life

      La Brume de Demain

      The Mist of Destiny

      Le Courant de la Vie

      The Current of Life

      A Restless Traveller

      A Motherly Gaze

      Dancing Snow

      A Rhetorical Question for Motherland

      Enlevée par le Vent

      The Other Side of the Mirror

      Une Lettre d’Amour

      A Love Letter

      The Music of My Heart

      Un Rêve de Midi

      A Midday Dream

      Tombée Amoureuse

      Fallen in Love

      À l’Amie du Cœur

      To My Dear Friend

      Une Lettre à Ma Fille

      A Letter to My Daughter

      The Hidden Sense of Life

      Une Vague Idée de l’Amour

      A Faint Image of Love

      La Lumière Divine

      The Divine Light

      Will the World Ever Change?

      A Play on Words

      Afterword: My Musings about Life

      List of Illustrations by Alice Chudes

      List of Illustrations by Ellie Lasthiotaki

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      The Pink-Golden Explosion of Love, 2020

      Acrylic and mixed media on circular canvas 50 cm

      Illustration by Alice Chudes

      Dove 62785.png came in to him at eventide,

      and, lo, in mouth an olive leaf¹ freshly plucked;

      so, Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the Earth.²

      –Genesis 8:11

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      If you can cultivate the right attitude,

      your enemies are your best spiritual teachers

      because their presence provides you with the opportunity

      to enhance and develop tolerance, patience, and understanding.

      —Dalai Lama XIV

      First, I would like to thank every single one of my friends who have always kept their door closed³ for me. I cannot possibly mention every person who helped me here. However, please know that all your names are forever written in The Book of Life.

      Second, I would like to thank every single one of my enemies. Why would anyone thank his or her enemies? – I would like to thank you because each time I met an obstacle in my life, thanks to you, you redirected me from the wrong path to the right one.

      Finally, I would like to thank my most favourite category of people, the converters. As per the last chapter of ‘The Art of War’ by Sun Tzu, these are people who started off by being my enemies but with the passage of time converted to be my friends. They have already come to apologise or will do precisely that in the near future. They do not have to tell me, whether they intend to do so or not. Maybe because it is already written in the history of the world. Remember that time is spiral like DNA. It is not linear. It is the cobra snake that eats its own tail. Everything that is about to happen, happened already. Furthermore, these are my most favourite people, because they are my most loyal supporters. Once they turn around by apologising, there is no way back to hatred. They can only love from that point on.

      Любовь спасет мир. - Нет! - Любовь уже спасла мир. И не раз, и не два!⁴

      However, I won’t tell you all the answers …

      To be continued.

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      Self-Portrait, 2016

      Acrylic on canvas 45 by 35 cm

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      It Is Hard Dealing with a Poet by Vladimir Guevarra

      by Vladimir Guevarra

      It is hard dealing with a poet

      For he looks at the world in a certain way

      A certain angle

      Misconstrued and mangled

      Nothing is in between

      And everything is in extremes

      It is hard dealing with a poet

      For he has an opinion much greater and much better than anybody else’s

      And all fact is hearsay, and history is myth

      It is hard dealing with a poet

      For books are like friends, and words keep him company

      In days of fluid motion and nights of lunacy

      It is hard dealing with a poet

      Who writes of tormented souls, tortured love

      Quivering flesh, distorted hate, and his perfect self

      He curses the blackness of the heart and the brilliance of an evil mind

      He understands everything in the world

      Yet squanders each silver coin in his pocket

      It is hard dealing with a poet

      Who searches for answers where there are none

      Who studies mankind’s place amongst the cosmos and the stars

      Who wonders about his Creator and his Destroyer

      And who makes the simplest things difficult, and the complex ones absurd

      It is hard dealing with a poet

      Enamoured by a woman

      The scent of her hair, the warmth of her skin

      The contours of her body, and her blood hot within

      It is hard dealing with a poet

      Who stares at paintings and murals over and over like a maniac obsessed

      And convinces himself that reality mimics art, and art is perfection

      Where sketches trace the contours of society

      And society is his moving subject

      It is hard dealing with a poet

      Who demands accuracy and excellence

      When he himself is frail, flawed, and broken

      When he can’t listen to what people say of him

      And confuses people with his verses

      It is hard dealing with a poet

      Who easily feels ‘at peace’ looking at hyacinths

      In striking hues of blue, yellow, and white

      Or in fragrant fields of lavender

      Across rolling hills with yonder cliffs and crashing waves

      It is hard dealing with a poet

      Who loosens his tongue after cavorting with

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